草草了事
cǎo​cǎo​liǎo​shì

to muddle through

  • created sense approved 草草了事 · cǎo​cǎo​liǎo​shì · to muddle through — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    草草了事

    cǎo​cǎo​liǎo​shì

    to muddle through

    To rush through a task or get through something carelessly; to finish a job in a perfunctory manner.

    草草 (reduplication) → 草 · cǎo · careless 了 (literal) → 了 · liǎo · to finish 事 (literal) → 事 · shì · matter

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense